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Mike Venezia

Author of Van Gogh (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)

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Mike Venezia was born on June 8, 1945 in New York City. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. He was the executive art director and vice president at Leo Burnett Company for 33 years. He retired to work full time on his books and videos. He started his writing career back in 1978, when he authored and illustrated books for Childrens Press. His books include the Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists series, Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers series, Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents series, and Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors and Scientists series. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Van Gogh (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 660 copies, 3 reviews
Monet (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 657 copies, 2 reviews
Da Vinci (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 605 copies, 4 reviews
Picasso (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 575 copies, 3 reviews
Michelangelo (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 481 copies, 2 reviews
Mary Cassatt (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 461 copies, 5 reviews
Rembrandt (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 458 copies, 1 review
Georgia O'Keeffe (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 414 copies, 3 reviews
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) 323 copies, 2 reviews
Ludwig Van Beethoven (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) 320 copies, 2 reviews
Johann Sebastian Bach (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) 280 copies
Jackson Pollock (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 249 copies, 1 review
Peter Tchaikovsky (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) 246 copies, 1 review
Salvador Dali (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 242 copies, 3 reviews
George Handel (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) 240 copies, 1 review
Frida Kahlo (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 234 copies, 2 reviews
Pierre Auguste Renoir (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 208 copies
Edgar Degas (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 203 copies
Botticelli (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 195 copies, 1 review
George Gershwin (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) 192 copies, 1 review
Andy Warhol (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 185 copies
Pieter Bruegel (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 178 copies, 1 review
Henri Matisse (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 168 copies
Paul Klee (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 164 copies, 1 review
Paul Gauguin (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 157 copies
Diego Rivera (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 151 copies, 2 reviews
Edward Hopper (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 150 copies
Duke Ellington (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) 150 copies
Norman Rockwell (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 146 copies, 1 review
Frederic Chopin (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) 144 copies, 1 review
John Philip Sousa (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) 136 copies, 1 review
Igor Stravinsky (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) 133 copies
Aaron Copland (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) 132 copies
Albert Einstein: Universal Genius 129 copies, 1 review
Paul Cezanne (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 127 copies, 1 review
Johannes Vermeer (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 125 copies, 1 review
Johannes Brahms (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) 123 copies
Francisco Goya (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 123 copies
The Beatles (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) 113 copies
Winslow Homer (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 111 copies, 1 review
Marc Chagall (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 110 copies
Grant Wood (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 110 copies
Georges Seurat (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 110 copies, 1 review
Jacob Lawrence (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 106 copies
Leonard Bernstein (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) 105 copies
Giotto (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 103 copies
Rachel Carson: Clearing the Way for Environmental Protection 102 copies
Faith Ringgold (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 97 copies, 1 review
George Washington: First President 1789-1797 96 copies, 5 reviews
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Getting to Know the World's Greatest… 96 copies, 1 review
Andrew Jackson: Seventh President 1829-1837 95 copies
El Greco (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 94 copies
Raphael (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 91 copies
Roy Lichtenstein (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 87 copies, 1 review
Thomas Jefferson: Third President 1801 - 1809 80 copies, 1 review
Frederic Remington (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 70 copies
James Monroe: Fifth President, 1817-1825 69 copies
Thomas Edison: Inventor With a Lot of Bright Ideas 69 copies, 1 review
Alexander Graham Bell: Setting the Tone for Communication 68 copies
Grandma Moses (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 67 copies
Dorothea Lange (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 66 copies, 3 reviews
John Quincy Adams: Sixth President 1825-1829 64 copies, 1 review
Marie Curie: Scientist Who Made Glowing Discoveries 62 copies
The Wright Brothers: Inventors Whose Ideas Really Took Flight (Getting to… 61 copies, 1 review
Charles Drew: Doctor Who Got the World Pumped Up to Donate Blood 59 copies
Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak: Geek Heroes Who Put the Personal in Computers… 59 copies, 1 review
Diego Velazquez (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 58 copies
Stephen Hawking: Cosmologist Who Gets a Big Bang Out of the Universe 58 copies, 1 review
Henry Ford: Big Wheel in the Auto Industry 56 copies, 1 review
John Adams: Second President 1797-1801 56 copies, 1 review
Luis Alvarez: Wild Idea Man 54 copies
Horace Pippin (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 53 copies
James McNeill Whistler (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 52 copies
Lise Meitner: Had the Right Vision about Nuclear Fission 51 copies
James Madison: Fourth President 1809-1817 51 copies, 1 review
Eugene Delacroix (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 50 copies
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Thirty-Second President 1933-1945 48 copies, 1 review
Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President 1861-1865 47 copies, 1 review
Henri Rousseau (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 47 copies
Titian (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 46 copies
René Magritte (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 45 copies
Camille Pissarro (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 43 copies
Mary Leakey: Archaeologist Who Really Dug Her Work 32 copies, 1 review
Jane Goodall: Researcher Who Champions Chimps (Getting to Know the… 31 copies, 2 reviews
Daniel Hale Williams: Surgeon Who Opened Hearts and Minds (Getting to Know… 30 copies
Benjamin Harrison: Twenty-Third President 1889-1893 30 copies
William Henry Harrison: Ninth President 1841 28 copies
Zachary Taylor: Twelfth President 1849-1850 (Getting to Know the U.S.… 27 copies
Gerald R. Ford: Thirty-Eighth President 1974-1977 27 copies
Alexander Calder (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) 27 copies
John Tyler: Tenth President 1841-1845 26 copies
Martin Van Buren: Eighth President 1837-1841 26 copies
Woodrow Wilson: Twenty-Eighth President (Getting to Know the U.S.… 25 copies
Benjamin Franklin: Electrified the World with New Ideas 25 copies, 1 review
Grover Cleveland: Twenty-Second and Twenty-Fourth President 1885-1889,… 25 copies
James K. Polk: Eleventh President 1845-1849 24 copies
Ulysses S. Grant: Eighteenth President 1869-1877 24 copies
Ronald Reagan (Getting to Know the Us Presidents) 23 copies, 1 review
Lyndon B. Johnson: Thirty-Sixth President 1963-1969 23 copies
Millard Fillmore: Thirteenth President 1850 - 1853 23 copies
Jimmy Carter: Thirty-Ninth President 1977-1981 (Getting to Know the U.S.… 22 copies
How to Be an Older Brother or Sister (What to Expect When It Happens to… 22 copies
Bill Clinton (Getting to Know the Us Presidents) 21 copies
John F. Kennedy: Thirty-Fifth President 1961-1963 (Getting to Know the… 21 copies
James A. Garfield: Twentieth President 1881 (Getting to Know the US… 19 copies
Franklin Pierce: Fourteenth President 1853-1857 19 copies
Rutherford B. Hayes: Nineteenth President 1877-1881 (Getting to Know the… 19 copies
Chester A. Arthur: Twenty-First President, 1881-1885 (Getting to Know the… 19 copies
Herbert Hoover: Thirty-First President 1929-1933 (Getting to Know the U.S.… 18 copies
Warren G. Harding (Getting to Know the Us Presidents) 17 copies
Calvin Coolidge (Getting to Know the Us Presidents) 17 copies
Harry S. Truman: Thirty-Third President 1945-1953 (Getting to Know the… 17 copies
James Buchanan: Fifteenth President 1857-1861 17 copies
William Howard Taft: Twenty-Seventh President 1909-1913 (Getting to Know… 17 copies
William McKinley: Twenty-Fifth President 1897-1901 (Getting to Know the… 16 copies
Andrew Johnson: Seventeenth President 1865-1869 15 copies
Theodore Roosevelt (Getting to Know the Us Presidents) 15 copies
Richard M. Nixon: Thirty-Seventh President 1969-1974 (Getting to Know the… 14 copies
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Thirty-Fourth President 1953-1961 (Getting to Know… 13 copies
George W. Bush: Forty-Third President 2000-2008 12 copies
George Bush (Getting to Know the Us Presidents) 12 copies
Across State Lines: An Anthology of Poetry (Dover Thrift Editions.) 8 copies
Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists Set 2 copies
ΟΙ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΙ ΖΩΓΡΑΦΟΙ 1 copy
[(Leonard Bernstein)] [By (author) Mike Venezia] published on (August,… 1 copy
BY Venezia, Mike ( Author ) [{ James Monroe: Fifth President 1817-1825… 1 copy
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Eat Your Peas, Louise! (Illustrator) 384 copies
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